Thursday's News & Ideas - 3/6/2025
- Remembering ‘Bloody Sunday’
- ‘Negative world’ for Christianity
- Survey on support of same-sex marriage
- Greelanders’ religion
- Catholic women go on strike
- Intuition in medicine
60 years after ‘Bloody Sunday,’ faith leaders are still key to the fight against racism
Religion News Service: Today’s clergy need to answer the Rev. Martin Luther King’s call six decades ago to step up, organize and take action.
He gave a name to what many Christians feel*
The New York Times: And the feeling isn’t good. Aaron Renn has gained a following by warning that the U.S. is currently a “negative world” for Christianity.
New survey shows 67% of Americans support same-sex marriage
NPR: A new Public Religion Research Institute survey finds an increase in support for marriage equality among people from more conservative backgrounds. But it finds Americans split on transgender rights.
Most Greenlanders are Lutheran, 300 years after a missionary brought the faith to the remote island
The Associated Press: About 90% of the 57,000 Greenlanders identify as Inuit and the vast majority of them belong to the Lutheran Church today.
Catholic women go on Lenten strike to highlight their work in the church
Religion News Service: The Synod on Synodality disappointed many women’s hopes that it would recognize women’s essential role in the church. A women’s strike, they hope, will make their point.
The Spark
When I lost my intuition
For years, I practiced medicine with cool certainty, comfortable with life-and-death decisions. Then, one day, I couldn’t, a physician writes at Aeon.
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